PESHAWAR: More than 50 per cent women’s reserved seats in the province will remain vacant as conservative norms obstructed women from taking part in the by-polls. The NWFP is generally regarded as a conservative region where religious and tribal leaders have always been averse to women participation in politics. The schedule for filing nomination papers […]
ISLAMABAD – The female MNAs both from ruling and treasury benches on March 16, warned the government of dire consequences in case a ban is imposed on wearing head scarf for women working in public organizations specially Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC). The women parliamentarians from ruling and treasury benches signed a motion which MMA’s […]
ISLAMABAD – President General Pervez Musharraf on May 15 called for passing a law to ban honour killing and said the Hudood Ordinance and the Blasphemy Law be studied afresh to ensure that they are not misused. Reaffirming commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights at a convention on Sensitization and Adoption of […]
New York, March 15, 2004-Last week, Pakistan’s Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, acknowledged that the government had suspended advertising in newspapers belonging to the Nawa-i-Waqt Group of Publications, including the English-language daily The Nation and the Urdu-language daily Nawa-i-Waqt. He denied, however, that an official ban had been issued. In February, the government effectively stopped […]
HYDERABAD – The Jamaat-iÂIslami Hyderabad on March 15 condemned the govt ban on advertisements of Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation and called for immediate lifting of the ban. JI Hyderabad Ameer Abdul Waheed Oureshi, Shaikh Shaukat Ali, Dr, Fawad Ahmed, Rao Masood Ali Khan and Rana Mehmood Ali Khan in their joint statement termed the government […]
FAISALABAD — The APNS and the CPNE members from Faisalabad at an emergency meeting unanimously passed a resolution against the ban on government advertisements to the Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation. The Editor Daily Business Report Abdur Rashid Ghazi chaired the meeting, held at the office of Daily Business Report. Ghazi while presenting the resolution said […]
VIENNA: International Press Institute (IPI), global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries expressed concern over use of advertisements to pressure newspapers in Pakistan to curtail their criticism of the government. In a letter addressed to President Pervez Musharraf, IPI Director, Johann Frtiz said in February government banned advertising in […]
KARACHI: The Executive Committee of the APNS will meet on March 15, 2004, at Islamabad to discuss the present state of government-press relations along with other organizational issues, stated a spokesman of the APNS. Muhammad Aslam Kazi, Secretary-General of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society, in a statement has announced that the Executive Committee members from […]
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a workshop stressed on the need of engaging womenfolk in the electoral process and urged the government to take action against those political parties who stopped women from contesting election and casting votes. The one-day workshop entitled “Media portrayal of women participation in the political process” was organized here on March 13, […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court restrained the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority on March 12, 2004, from finalizing the process of granting licenses for satellite TV broadcast stations on an application moved by the Pakistan Herald Publications Limited. Submitted in a writ petition filed by the PHPL, the application said Rule 17 (V) of the […]
Editorial… Federal Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad has said that the issue of government advertisements to the Nawa-i-Waqt group of newspapers will soon be resolved. He made the statement in National Assembly on March 11. He had promised something similar a few days ago, but the deadlock remains. No one from government side has clearly […]
KARACHI: The London-based chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement on March 11, 2004, threatened the country’s television channels with a boycott for failing, in his opinion, to project the poor people’s cause. Altaf Hussain was obviously not too happy over the treatment meted out to his party by the electronic media. He served a word of […]
SUKKUR: Hundreds of activists of different political parties and journalists of Sukkur on Wednesday took out a protest rally against the police, who have failed to recover journalist Shahbaz Khan Pathan and his friend Naveed Mangi, kidnapped on March 11, 2004, from in front of their houses in Old Sukkur. Activists of PPP, Jeay Sindh, […]
KARACHI – The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFLU) has declared the government’s ban on advertisements to daily Nawa-i-Waqt as ‘contradictory to the spirit of freedom of press’ and demanded that this step should be revoked immediately so as to develop culture of freedom of expression in the country. In a Press statement the PFUJ […]
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